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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

NATHANIEL C. SANFORD, OF MERIDN, CONNECTICUT.

MODE or MAKING CURRYcoMBs.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 997, dated November 3, 1838.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, NATHAN IAL C. SANFORD, ofthe town of Meriden, in the county of New Haven, and State ofConnecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the CommonHorse Currycomb, and the same is described in the followingspecification and drawings.

Take two plates of sheet iron of the size of a common horse ourrycomband fasten them firmly together, face to face, and fix on them a handle;through one of these plates, which I call the under one, make fiveparallel openings at equal distances from each other, running nearlyacross the plate, as is represented in drawing Aand with the handle, asin drawing B, which openings must be large enough to receive the head ofa wooden comb of the size as Y in drawing'B at a, s'o one plate may beused as well as two; in which case the combs are fixed in, in the samemanner exceptthey do not rest on any opposite plate, but two platesarebetter. So Vtoo the body of the comb may be made of wood, as representedin drawing E, in which case the combs eX- tend the whole width of thewood `and are fitted into it by small grooves and `there nade iii-m, butthe iron plates I have found vest.

Drawing A represents the lower plate of sheet iron; B, aHcomplete-currycomb; C, a plate with one opening; D, a wooden comb, andE, wooden stock of a currycomb. VThe exact size of the combs, plates andteeth are not material, but a comb of the common size as hereinrepresented, plates, Svc., I

have found to be best.

This currycomb is more convenient, less expensive and more smooth andtender, and easier to use than any other now known.

My improvement does not consist in any of the separate partsv mentioned,but of the combination of the wooden comb `with the other parts so as tomake the said Vcurryp comb as herein described.

NATHANIEL C. SANFORD.

Vitnesses:

WM. W. ELLswoRTH, C. H. TUTHILL.

